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035			_a(OCoLC)317919961 _z(OCoLC)1057013634 _z(OCoLC)1067154549
050		4	_aBL53 _b.L48 2010
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100	1		_aLewis-Williams, J. David.
245	1	0	_aConceiving God : _bthe cognitive origin and evolution of religion / _cDavid Lewis-Williams.
260			_aLondon : _bThames & Hudson, _c
300			_a320 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index.
505	0		_aProlegomena : windows on the past and some of the questions they raise -- A new way of thinking -- From skies to species -- A tale of two scientists -- Explaining religion -- Religious experience -- Religious belief -- Religious practice -- Stone Age religion -- Hildegard on the African veld -- God's empire strikes back -- Epilegomena : of babies and bathwater.
520			_aThis book is a controversial exploration of the origin of religion in the neurology of the human brain. The author first describes how science developed within the cocoon of religion and then shows how the natural functioning of the human brain creates experiences that can lead to belief in a supernatural realm, beings, and interventions. Once people have these experiences, they formulate beliefs about them, and thus creeds are born. Forty thousand years ago, people were leaving traces in the archaeological record of activities that we can label religious, and the author discusses in detail the evidence preserved in the Volp Caves in France. He also shows that mental imagery produced by the functioning of the human brain can be detected in widely separated religious communities such as Hildegard of Bingen's in medieval Europe or the San hunters of southern Africa.
650		0	_aReligion, Prehistoric.
650		0	_aEvolution _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aReligion _xPhilosophy.
650		7	_aEvolution _xReligious aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00917280
650		7	_aReligion _xPhilosophy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01093794
650		7	_aReligion, Prehistoric. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01093897
650		7	_aEvolutionstheorie _2gnd
650		7	_aHumanwissenschaften _2gnd
650		7	_aKognition _2gnd
650		7	_aKognitive Entwicklung _2gnd
650		7	_aReligion _2gnd
650		7	_a _2gnd
650		7	_a _2gnd
650	1	2	_aReligion _xhistory.
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